Mark Carney
Prime Minister of Canada, 2025–
Started fromFort Smith, Northwest Territories, then Edmonton. Father a school principal and later a University of Alberta professor; mother a teacher. His father waited tables on Canadian Pacific dining cars in the 1950s before university.
Holds nowHeld about US$6.8m in unexercised Brookfield options as of 31 December 2024, and a Brookfield stake reported at more than $10m in total. The Ethics Commissioner’s disclosure lists over 500 holdings, placed in a blind trust on taking office. A conflict-of-interest screen covers more than 100 entities, Brookfield and Stripe among them, and is administered by his own chief of staff and the Clerk of the Privy Council.
13 steps, 5 through institutions shared with the others
- –1983 St. Francis Xavier High SchoolEdmonton. Academic results there earned a scholarship to study in the United States — the step that decides everything after it.
- 1995–2003 Goldman SachsThirteen years — London, Tokyo, New York, Toronto. Rose to managing director of investment banking.
- 2003 Bank of CanadaDeputy Governor
- 2008–13 Bank of CanadaGovernor
- 2011–18 Financial Stability BoardChairman — the G20 body housed at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel
- 2013–20 Bank of EnglandGovernor — the first non-Briton to hold the post in the Bank’s history
- 2020–25 Brookfield Asset ManagementVice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Fund Investing from August 2020, then Chair from around 2022. Brookfield held roughly $750bn under management when he was made Chair and passed $1 trillion by 2025. The company descends from Edper Investments, the holding vehicle of Edward and Peter Bronfman, which took Brascan in 1979 and was renamed Brookfield in 2005. He resigned in January 2025 to run for the Liberal leadership. Also UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
- 2025 Prime MinisterWon the Liberal leadership without having previously held elected office
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